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Scary Movie review – belated return of the…

Like an irksome stinging insect nonetheless vital to controlling excess animal population, the Scary Movie franchise serves a worthy function in a greater cultural ecosystem that continues to churn out multiplex fare begging to be spoofed. It’s been thirteen years since the...

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Hacks was always a love story

Hacks contains multitudes; at once it’s a giddy comedy, an unpredictable drama, and an endlessly fruitful sitcom, but more than anything, Hacks is a love story. Across five seasons, the personal and professional relationship of Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) has...

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The Dreamed Adventure – first-look review

In Valeska Grisebach’s last film, from 2017, a German laborer in Bulgaria to work on an infrastructure project explores the hillsides around a Bulgarian village on foot and horseback, wandering through a rugged landscape populated by wary natives and rowdy outsiders, a taciturn loner...

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All of a Sudden – first-look review

When we talk about ​“set pieces” in relationship to cinema, we often think of a jaw-dropping, computer-assisted visual sugar rush that is primed to leave the audience banjaxed with a sense of breathless awe. In Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s tremendously beautiful and wise new...

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Has streaming killed Star Wars?

In a 2023 interview, Liam Neeson, who played Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jin in The Phantom Menace, chalked up his disillusionment with the ever-expanding number of Star Wars offshoots to their insistence on contorting themselves to the confines of television. ​“I’m a bit of...

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